Battlefield 3 Update Deployed: Tweaks Incoming

First-person military shooter Battlefield 3 will receive a server update today on all formats. The update will implement some balancing tweaks to the Armored Kill gunship and offer the option to remove the minimap in Hardcore mode.

Battlefield 3 players will probably remember that the Armored Kill gunship already received some major tweaks in the last server update. Community feedback suggested that those tweaks weren’t enough, so more changes are on the way. The changes vary by game mode and Battlelog has them all detailed on its website.

The optional removal of the minimap in Hardcore mode is something the Battlefield community has been requesting for a long time. There will now be a new preset on consoles for server admins to use called ‘Hardcore no map’, which will disable the minimap and keep the rest of the Hardcore settings intact.

The update was scheduled to begin this morning around 4:30 a.m. ET. The console updates should take roughly six hours to be rolled out worldwide. PC updates are also due to roll out at some point in the next 24 hours.

Battlelog and the game backend are performing scheduled maintenance in this same window of time; players will not be able to access Battlefield 3 on PC or consoles during that period.